Paper carrier for typewriters



2 Sheets-Sheet 1 A 7' TPNFV April l0, 1951 w. M. FITZGERALD PAPER CARRIER FOR TYPEWRITERS Filed Dec. 20, 1948 April 10, 1951 w. M. FITZGERALD PAPER CARRIER FOR TYPEWRITERS 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Dec. 20, 1948 IN VEN TOR.

Patented Apr. 10, 1951 .UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PAPER CARRIER FOR TYPEWRITERS william M. Fitzgerald, Sanford/N. c. Applieation December 2o, 194s, serial No. 66,225

s claims. (o1. 19t-133) This invention relates to improvements in typewriting machines, billing machines and the like, and more especially to a container for holding a supply of inter-connected paper sheets or bills and means for connecting the container to the billing machine adjacent the feed roller or platen of the billing machine.

An object of the invention is to provide a container having a transverse partition therein thus dividing the container into forward and rearward A'compartments and to provide means for connecting the container to the conventional platen carriage of a billing machine or a typewriter and to provide means for directing interconnected sheets of paper from the forward compartment of the container to the platen of the billing machine and then to provide other means for directing the typed sheets from the platen of the billing machine to the rearward compartment. Some of the objects of the invention having been stated, other objects will appear as the description proceeds, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Y Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus attached to a typewriter or billing machine;

Figure 2 is anenlarged View of the central portion of Figure 1 with parts broken away and parts shown in section;

Figure 3 is a plan view of the structure shown in Figure 2 and is taken substantially along the line 3-3 in Figure 2;

Figure 4 is an isometric view looking at the top of Figure 1 with parts broken away;

Figure 5 is an enlarged plan view with parts in section showing the means forlocking the conventional paper guide means of the carriage in a desired attitude for applying the invention thereto and is taken substantially along the line 5-5 in Figure 1; Y

Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 5 but showing locking means 'on' the other end of the carriage.

Referring more specifically to the drawings y numeral II) indicates a typewriter, billing machine or the like, having a conventional laterally movable carriage, the opposite ends of which are dened by end plates I3 and I4 which rotatably support a conventional platen I5 and also support the conventional guide member I6.y In the conventional machine, the guide I6 is oscillatably supported by having spacer sleeves at each end thereof loosely mounted on bolts I1 and I8, each having a nut I9 thereon, and the guide member I6 is normally urged to a fixed attitude relative to the platen I5 by conventional spring means,

2, not shown. In the present invention, the guide member I 6 has collars 20 and 2I welded to the ends thereof, the outer end of each being serrated. Mating collars 22 and 23 are loosely mounted on the bolts I'l and I8 respectively, and their outer ends are welded to the proximate sides of members I3 and I4 to secure the paper guide I6 in a fixed attitude relative to the end members I3 and I4 (Figures 4 and 5) The end plates I3 and I4 usually have rearwardly extending ears 24 and 25, respectively, integral therewith and which are connected by a transverse rod 26 which extends between the ears and slidably penetrates the lears 24 and 25 and has a nut 21 on each end thereof to secure the rod 26l to the ears 24 and 25.

The numeral 30 broadly designates a container having side walls 3| and 32, end walls 33 and 34, a bottom and a transverse partition 36 which divides the container 30 into forward and rearward compartments. The bottom 35 has openings and 4I therein which communicate with the forward and rearward compartments respectively of the container 30. The front end 33 of the container 30 extends upwardly beyond the upper edge of the side walls 3-I and 32 and is bent as at 42 thus forming a downwardly and forwardly sloping portion 43 having upwardly and inwardly bent flange portions 44 at its opposite edges for guiding the paper from the forward Y compartment beneath the platen I5, as will be later described.

The center of the angularly disposed portion 43 is slidably penetrated by a flush head bolt 45 which .also slidably penetrates the guide member .member 34 extend forwardly and outwardly against the outer 'surfaces of ears 24 and 25 and are penetratedV by the opposite ends of the rod 26. Nuts 21 on each end of rod 26 confine the forward ends of the strap v46 in position.

Secured by any suitable means, such as by bolts 41', only one of which is shown, to the remote sides of the side walls 3l and 32 and extending upwardly and forwardly at an angle from the same is an inverted substantially U-shaped support 50 to which an angularly disposed guide plate 5I is spot welded intermediate its ends, which serves to guide the paper P after it passes tainer.

2. In combination with a typewriter having a `laterally movable carriage thereon provided with a 2,548,715 i -r Y beneath the platen l5, over the front compartment and into the rear compartment.

It will be noted in Figures 1 and 4 that this guide plate 5I extends to a point closely adjacent the platen I5 and is disposed at an angle substantially tangent to the upper forward circumference of the platen I5. Interconnected manifolded sheets of paper` P extend from a suitable batch 55 of interconnected paper sheets placed in the forward compartment of the vcontainer and the paper sheets P extend upwardly and pass beneath the inturned portions 44 and are thus guided over the angularly disposed portion 43 of the front wall 33 which directs the papersheets P to the platen I5 beneath which they pass and are typed in a conventional manner. Now, as the platen l5 is rotated in a step-by-step manner, the paper sheets P pass along the upper surface oi the angularly disposed guide member 5l' and these paper sheets P', having been transversely creased bef-ore being placed in the forward compartment of the container 3G, will fall into the rearward compartment of the container 3D substantiallyas shown in Figure 1 and will thus present a batch of interconnected sheets indicated at 56.

It will be noted that, when so desired, one nger may be inserted in either of the openings 4U or 4I in the bottom 35 of the container 30 for raising the blocks of paper sheets 55 and 5S, respectively, for removing the same from the forward or rearward compartments of the container 30.

This apparatus is especially useful in typing long distance telephone statements, but it is to be understood that the width and length 'of the container 3B and the width of the guide member 43 may be varied to suit various widths and lengths of paper stock.

In the drawings and specicaton there has Y been set forth a preferred embodiment of the invention, and although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only, and not for purposes of limitation,

'the scope of the invention being defined in the claims.

I claim:

1. In combination with a typewriter having a laterally moving carriage provided with a platen and a paper guide, a container secured to and solely supported by the laterally movable carriage for containing an elongated sheet of paper, guiding means on the container extending over the paper guide and secured thereto for directing sheets of paper to the platen. and second guiding means secured to the container and disposed above the first guiding means for directing the paper from Vthe platen back to the conplaten and a paper guide, said carriage also having a transverse rod at its rearmost end, a container having an angularly bent portion at its front end which conforms to the angle of the paper guide, means securing the angularly bent portion to the paper guide, whereby the front end of said container will abut against the transverse rod on the carriage, and reinforcing means extending from the rearmost end of said container and secured to the opposite ends of said carriage to thus assist in supporting the container in a substantially horizontal position relative to the typewriter.

3. In combination with a typewriter having a carriage and a rotatable platen and a guide member mounted in the carriage, means for securing the guide member to the carriage in xed relation thereto, a container, means for securing the container to the guide member, said container having a transverse partitiontherein thus dividing the container into forward and rearward compartments, one compartment for containing a supply of interconnected sheets of paper and the other compartment for receiving the typed sheets, and an angularly disposed guide plate connected to said container and disposed above the same for directing the interconnected paper sheets from the platen of the typewriter to the rearward compartment.

4. In a structure according to claim 3, said container having openings in its bottom communicating with each of said compartments to facilitate removal of the contents of each compartment.

5. A typewriter having a platen and a paper guide mounted in a carriage having a to and fro movement laterally of the typewriten a tray having front and rear compartments secured to and solelyv` carried with the carriage, one ci said compartments being adapted to contain an elongated sheet ofmanifolded paper,Y guiding means secured to the front compartment of the tray and extending over the paper guide and secured thereto for guiding-the leading end of the sheet of paper beneath the platen, and the other ,compartment being adapted to receive the sheet of paper and second guiding means secured to the front compartment and disposed above the rstnamed guiding means for engaging the lower surface only'of ,the writing material and guiding the same from the platen to the other compartment.

6. In a writing machine having a platen mounted in a carriage'having a to and `fro movement and said carriage having a guide member therein, a container secured to said guide member, means for securing the guide member in the Vcarriage 'comprising sleeves integral with opposite ends and a boltipenetratng the sleeves at each end of the guide member and the sleeves in the carriage for securing the guide member in a fixed attitude relative to the carriage and thus securing the container in a fixed attitude relative to the carriage.' i A REFERENCES CITED The following references are oi record inthe le ofthis patent:

UNTED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,286,820 Sorensen Dec. 3, 19.18 2,216,081 Kniehahn et al. Sept. 24, 1940 

